by GM Yuri Solodovnichenko

Upon his return from the 8th Banja Luka International tournament, GM Yuri Solodovnichenko sent us this cute game where his imagination helped him save tough position. The game was played at the 1999 Poland Grand Prix. Yuri is rated close to 2600 and is currently playing for chess clubs SF Gerresheim (Germany), Echiquier Niortais (France) and Escacs Figueres (Spain).

Chessdom Chess Academy is fully operational

Chessdom has developed a very effective online training system that does not involve any chess servers and depends on nothing but your healthy Internet. The professional coaches – IM Martha Fierro, IM Miodrag Perunovic, and IM Kalin Karakehayov – are ready to improve your chess understanding no matter what your level is. For that reason the academy has prepared:

* Hundreds of instructional games with detailed annotations

* Over 5000 tactical training problems

* An excellent database of over 1000 endgame positions from simple to very complicated, covering all about endgame theory and practice

* Huge opening books to help you build up your repertoire

Free lesson

Never buy cat in the bag, try our weekly free trial lesson before making your mind. Group lesson with IM Miodrag Perunovic is taking place every Friday 14:00 EST (20:00 CET) at the Internet Chess Club (ICC). To sign up, message TheButcher-Mio or Lardizabal on ICC or drop us an email. If you don’t have ICC account, sign up for one week free trial.

The coaches

IM Kalin Karakehajov – who successfully tested the Chessdom training system in the last few months with the youth champions of Bulgaria. Kalin is coaching 11 of 18 Bulgarian junior champions in different age groups.

by IM Miodrag Perunovic

As experienced teacher and site pro on former WorldChessNetwork, and now on WorldChessLive, IM Miodrag Perunovic has joined the Chessdom Online Chess Academy. He also wrote series of theoretical articles on Dragon Sicilian for “Chess Chronicle”. Drop us an email if you are interested in taking lessons from IM Perunovic.

Cascade of Sacrifices

This Caro-Kann line was very popular for almost 20 years… Karpov, Anand, Bareev and many others used to play this variation with Black pieces in the past. Why? Position is pretty solid, with healthy pawn structure and in most of lines game will be drawish. Practical results are also good for Black.

In short, White has to play very good to earn significant edge in this slightly better position. But this game will show you some important and amazing ideas which White have found lately! I decided to present you a game, played at the 2005 Russian Championship, between Landa and Shaposhnikov. Enjoy!